Winter Heating and Gas Factor

Residential gas consumption rises in the cold seasons and as a result gas supply to power plants declines, an Energy Ministry spokesman said.
“If homes do not reduce gas consumption there will be power outages,” Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi was quoted as saying by the Energy Ministry news portal Paven.
Almost all urban homes are primarily heated with natural gas. In recent years infrastructure has been expanding to supply piped gas to most rural areas not excluding the rugged mountain regions where winter temperatures fall to below 10-15 degrees Celsius.